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Thread #48187   Message #724303
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
06-Jun-02 - 10:27 AM
Thread Name: BS: There'll always be an England...
Subject: Lyr Add: THERE'LL ALWAYS BE AN ENGLAND
No one's posted the actual words of the ditty. Very much a gladdies-in-the-air type of song. There have been a fair number of fairly caustic parodies written.


THERE'LL ALWAYS BE AN ENGLAND
Words and music by Ross Parker & Hughie Charles, ©1939.

I give you a toast, ladies and gentlemen.
I give you a toast, ladies and gentlemen.
May this fair land we love so well
In dignity and freedom dwell.
Though worlds may change and go awry
While there is still one voice to cry,

CHORUS: There'll always be an England while there's a country lane,
Wherever there's a cottage small beside a field of grain.
There'll always be an England while there's a busy street,
Wherever there's a turning wheel, a million marching feet.
Red, white and blue;
What does it mean to you?
Surely you're proud.
Shout it aloud:
"Britons, awake!"
The empire too,
We can depend on you.
Freedom remains.
These are the chains
Nothing can break.
There'll always be an England, and England shall be free,
If England means as much to you as England means to me.


The site I found that on has Lili Marlene as the next song, in English and in German. And some other good stuff. Including the White Cliffs of Dover and We'll Meet Again, which have always been much better loved than "There'll Always Be An England"